A decade since ‘Sapiens’: Scientific knowledge or populism? (english.elpais.com)
The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language (www.bbc.com)
The nature and nurture of network evolution - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them (news.mit.edu)
On Sacrifice: the real kind, with corpses (eleanorkonik.substack.com)
Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a 'Mexican Halloween' (theconversation.com)
The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates (royalsocietypublishing.org)
In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred (apnews.com)
Cockney and Queen's English have all but disappeared among young people – here's what's replaced them (theconversation.com)
The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health (phys.org)
Modern humans left Africa some 60,000 years ago in the event known as “Out-of-Africa.” In Asia, they coincided with the Denisovans, and that encounter may have led to confrontations and collaborations, but also various crossbreeding. In fact, modern humans retain genetic variants of Denisovan origin in our genome, which are...
2023 Guide to Uncontacted Tribes: Advocating for Indigenous land Rights — Ultra Unlimited (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
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Earliest evidence of flip flops in the Middle Stone Age (phys.org)
Europe’s oldest known shoes are 6,000 years old. In South Africa, it was believed that before 2,000 years ago, people weren’t wearing shoes. But trace fossils from three paleosurfaces (surfaces of considerable antiquity) found on South Africa’s Cape Coast change that narrative. According to one of the researchers, Dr....
Wampum Belt exhibit in Montreal museum spans 4 centuries (www.aptnnews.ca)
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Scrolls That Survived Vesuvius Divulge Their First Word (www.nytimes.com)
In Prehispanic Cancun, immigrants were treated just like Maya locals: Study (phys.org)
New York's American Museum of Natural History to remove human remains from exhibits, including some from Indigenous and enslaved Black people | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Humans and Neanderthals mated 250,000 years ago, much earlier than thought (www.livescience.com)
Why Baseball Players Are So Superstitious (yt.artemislena.eu)
When did humans start burying their dead? (www.livescience.com)
This Ancient Society Survived The Sahara Desert With a Single Water Source (www.sciencealert.com)
Study shows Neanderthals inherited at least 6% of their genome from a now-extinct lineage of early modern humans (phys.org)
Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that at this time Neanderthals were already carrying human DNA from a much older encounter with modern humans....
Should We Stop Visiting Historic Sites? (www.architecturaldigest.com)
Hunter-gatherer children at school: A view from the Global South (osf.io)
Lector of Cherokee is Yale’s first faculty member in an Indigenous language (news.yale.edu)
Neanderthal gene variants associated with greater pain sensitivity (phys.org)
People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led by UCL researchers....
